Session 118. Binary Systems with Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Oral, Thursday, January 11, 2001, 10:30am-12:00noon, Town and Country

118.01 The Microquasar GRS 1758-258 as Seen by Chandra

W.A. Heindl (UCSD/CASS), D.M. Smith (UCB/SSL)

118.02 High Resolution Chandra HETG observation of microquasar GRS 1915+105

J.C. Lee, N.S. Schulz (MIT), C.S. Reynolds (JILA - U.Colorado), A.C. Fabian (IoA - Cambridge), E.G. Blackman (U. Rochester), G. Prigozhin (MIT)

118.03 Chandra and RXTE Observations of the Black Hole Candidate XTE J1550-564 During Outburst Decay

J.A. Tomsick (Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego), P. Kaaret (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

118.04 Black Holes Really are Black: New Evidence From {\em Chandra}

M. R. Garcia, S. S. Murray, J. E. McClintock, R. Narayan (CfA)

118.05 Possible Evidence for an Event Horizon in Cyg XR-1

J. F. Dolan (Lab. Astron. & Solar Physics, NASA Goddard SFC)

118.06 The X-Ray Photo-ionized Wind in Cen X-3/V779 Cen

P. Wojdowski, D. Liedahl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. Sako, F. Paerels, S. Kahn (Columbia University)

118.07 Evolution of the temporal variation of X-rays from Cygnus X-3

D. A. French, M. J. Stark, L. V. Jones (Denison University, Granville, Ohio)

118.08 Tidal Resonance in White Dwarf-Black Hole Binaries

Y. Rathore, R. D. Blandford (Caltech)

118.09 The Bardeen-Petterson Effect as a Mechanism for QPOs in X-ray Binaries

P. C. Fragile, G. J. Mathews, J. R. Wilson (University of Notre Dame)